Capital Datang

"Boom~"

There was a burst of thunderous noise on the battlefield. It was not really thunder, nor was Li Zhen's artillery firing, but the sound of thousands of elephants charging forward together. The war elephants stepped on their thick elephant legs, and came in a row like a wall of flesh. The terrifying momentum could smash everything that stood in front of them into pieces.

After Wang Xuance received Li Zhen's order, he immediately ordered the guard troops composed of Tianzhu people on the two wings to make a detailed attack posture, but the cavalry of the Chinese army did not move. The army took the initiative to attack, and the elephant soldiers in the front also began to accelerate their attack, preparing to trample Li Zhen's Chinese army into a pulp in one fell swoop.

Seeing the herd of war elephants charging towards them like a mountain of meat, the Taiwanese military academy graduates behind Li Zhen all looked pale. No matter what cruel training they received in the military academy, but compared with the situation on the real battlefield , but still far inferior, even if they are the elites of the military academy, their performance may not be as good as that of a small soldier when they face the battlefield for the first time.

In fact, not to mention those graduates, even Fang Yiai, who has always boasted of being brave, couldn't help but change his face when he saw so many war elephants rushing towards him for the first time. They are huge, but they look a little clumsy, but when the war elephants charge up, they realize that these huge war elephants are not clumsy at all. Instead, they run very fast, and their long noses are waving. The body can't resist at all.Capital Datang 617

But in contrast, Li Zhen and his cavalry seemed very calm, even in the face of such a charge.He didn't even frown.When the opponent's war elephant rushed within the firing range of the artillery, the artillery units ambushing on the two wings finally received the order.The artillery that had already adjusted its angle was ignited by the artillery, and then there were deafening roars.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of fiery solid shells flew out.He crashed into the group of elephant soldiers with extremely powerful kinetic energy, only to see a few blood-red passages suddenly appear in the group of elephant soldiers that was originally impenetrable, and a mournful elephant cry continued to sound, which was even more unlucky The elephant was shot through the brain by the shell, and its heavy body fell on the battlefield at once, twitched a few times and then stopped moving.

However, the number of elephant deaths caused by shells is only a small number. The key is the deafening roar when the artillery fires. Not too far from the case.Quite a few of the war elephants trembled from fright, and their forward pace slowed down significantly.

But this was only the beginning. Under the command of the artillery commander, the second batch of artillery that had already been prepared opened fire immediately. As a result, hundreds of artillery shells flew off, causing considerable losses to the elephant group, especially those of the kind The scene of flying flesh and blood has a strong impact on the war elephant.

Elephants are originally a very intelligent animal, they are yiyàng with humans.Knowing how to seek good luck and avoid bad luck, although this seems to be an advantage, it is a great disadvantage on the battlefield, because they know how to escape when facing danger.Therefore, when faced with a situation where wēixié is life and death and unable to resist, these war elephants will no longer be driven by the elephant slaves, but will start to retreat again and again.It may even go mad, and as long as one war elephant goes mad.Then it will trigger a chain reaction, causing more and more war elephants to go crazy together.

For the temper of an elephant.Li Zhen and his men have figured it out a long time ago, so they are not optimistic about this traditional Tianzhu army. Although there are many elephant soldiers in the Tianzhu army they annexed, they are all used as logistics troops. It seems that although elephants are not suitable for the battlefield, they are still very qualified for transportation.

Chaori King's army did not have much contact with Li Zhen's army before. Most of their understanding of Li Zhen's side was learned from the original Pallava Dynasty. Although they had heard of the power of artillery Some, but they don't care much about it. After all, in their minds, it is impossible to imagine the power of this super-era weapon.

In addition, during Li Zhen's early invasion of Zhongtianzhu, all he encountered were small groups of troops resisting, so it was not worth using artillery at all. It was precisely because of this that King Chaori seriously underestimated the power of artillery. Unexpectedly, the huge elephant soldiers he managed to organize were restrained, and King Chaori and his allies were in a state of confusion for a while.

However, King Chaori and the others realized it was too late. The war elephants charging ahead had been thrown into a mess by wave after wave of shells. Attacking the war elephants around, at the same time, the four thick elephant legs began to trample around. As a result, from time to time, the unlucky soldiers were trampled and their bones were broken, and the screams pierced the sky.

Wang Xuance, who was in command of the army, saw that the opponent's elephant soldiers were "disordered", but showed a grim smile on his face, and handed a command flag to the orderer, saying, "Fire the rockets!"

In addition to being afraid of the loud noise of artillery, elephants are most afraid of fire. Therefore, the most effective weapon against elephants is not only artillery, but also rockets, and rockets will explode. This is very powerful for elephants. Stronger, especially in the current chaotic situation, can maximize the power of the rocket.

Following Wang Xuance's order, there was a burst of sharp screams in the army formation, and then one after another, thick rockets rose into the sky, rushed into the chaotic herd of elephants in the blink of an eye, and then exploded The sound became one piece, black gunpowder smoke rose, black pits appeared on the ground, and the surroundings were full of blood and broken corpses. There were also elephants.

The rocket exploded in the elephant herd, which made the elephants even more terrified. They retreated like crazy, and they didn't dare to charge forward at all. Although the elephant slaves tried their best to scold them, it's a pity that the elephants not only didn't listen, but instead yelled at each other. The first one started to go crazy, and the elephant with red eyes stomped and bumped into Chaori King's army, and the whole front line suddenly became chaotic.

Seeing this situation, Wang Xuance, who had been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, finally launched an order for a general attack. For a while, the [-] cavalry of the Chinese army rushed past the chaotic elephant soldiers like tigers out of the cage. In the blink of an eye, he met the cavalry of Chaori King's side.

It's a pity that although they are all cavalry, the cavalry of King Chaori did not increase their speed at all because they were elephant soldiers in the front line, and their weapons and equipment were also behind Li Zhen's cavalry, so they were killed by the grassland cavalry as soon as they shot The formation was in chaos, and even a few brave cavalry quickly pierced through the opponent's cavalry formation, and began to slash and kill the enemy's last infantry.

In the era of cold weapons, cavalry was undoubtedly the king of land warfare. Even in the age of firearms, cavalry existed for quite a while, until the appearance of tanks finally ended the glory of cavalry.

Although King Chaori had a large number of cavalry, their speed did not increase, and the cavalry without speed was not much better than infantry. In addition to the quality and combat power of the army, the [-] cavalry of King Chaori were in front of them. When facing [-] prairie cavalry, they had no power to fight back. As for the last infantry, they became the target of the cavalry charge.

It is precisely because of this that the [-] prairie cavalry quickly disrupted King Chaori's army, and at this time the [-] guards behind them also rushed up, shouting the words of Shiva, the god of destruction. Name, following the pointing of Li Zhen's arm, rushed into King Chaori's army like crazy, slashed at the enemy fiercely with the excellent long knife in his hand, his face was full of fanaticism.If someone who is familiar with history sees them, they will probably shout out in horror: Crazy cultists!

The catechist army established by Li Zhen was not a joke, but he really wanted to turn it into a trump card in his hand. After all, the prairie cavalry he brought alone was not enough to rule the entire Tianzhu.Capital Datang 617

So from the very beginning, Li Zhen paid close attention to the construction of the Skitarii, and he also followed Li Yin's suggestion to brainwash these Skitarii, educating them on the teachings of the new Brahmins three times a day, so that they would remember Li Zhen and Li Yun are their gods, and they cannot violate the will of the gods no matter when and where.

And in the cataract army, each soldier needs to shout many times the slogans of praising Li Zhen and Li Yun, coupled with the intensive training, which makes their bodies and wills fatigued, so it is easy to let these The cathars lost their subjective judgment, and only the belief of being loyal to the two popes remained in their minds, which was similar to the pyramid schemes of later generations.

It is also under this kind of brainwashing, coupled with the fact that they have been influenced by Brahmanism since they were young, that the cathars easily formed a kind of fanatical worship of Li Zhen and Li Yun, and were even willing to sacrifice themselves for the gods. Everything, naturally more fanatical on the battlefield, can be said to be brave and fearless.

What's more, King Chaori's army had already been rushed to the chaos by the grassland cavalry, and [-] fanatical guards swarmed up, making Chaori King's army defeated, and soon lost the will to resist. Zhen's [-] troops killed rivers of blood.

Because this war broke out in the southern part of the Watapi area, it was called the Battle of Watapi in history. The more than [-] troops organized by Chaori King were killed and defeated. It reached more than [-] people, most of them were Chaori King's army, and most of the remaining Chaori King's army chose to surrender, and only a few were lucky enough to escape.And it is worth mentioning that Chaori King himself also died in the "chaotic" army, a small number of allies around him died in battle, and the rest also chose to surrender.

The Battle of Vatapi marked that Li Zhen finally cleared the way to march into Central Tianzhu. At the same time, New Brahmanism also began to officially enter Central Tianzhu. Tianzhu has officially become a big religion that can be compared with the old Brahmans and Buddhism.

And the Deccan Plateau area, which had not been unified for hundreds of years, was finally reunified by the foreign brothers Li Zhen and Li Yun. Next, there was only one North Tianzhu where the chaos continued. ! (to be continued...)